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Chapter 11 - Laboratory Tests and Blood Banking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2020

By
Dan Holmes  and
Felicity Stone
Edited by
Joseph McIsaac
Edited in association with
Kelly McQueen  and
Corry Kucik
Joseph McIsaac
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Kelly McQueen
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Corry Kucik
Affiliation:
United States Navy
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Summary

Although routine pre-operative laboratory testing is firmly established in anesthesia practice, common themes to emerge from the literature are that blood tests are inconsistently applied, consistently overused, and routine testing rarely changes anesthetic management.

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Essentials of Disaster Anesthesia , pp. 96 - 105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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